[blindlaw] Accessibility of Lexis-Nexis

[Russell J. Thomas, Jr.]

Unless the version of Lexis you will use has changed drastically, I have
always found Lexis to be very Jaws friendly. Like any new software
application, it takes some getting used to, but otherwise if works fine.

In my experience, it is far easier to use than Westlaw.


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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Matthias L. Niska
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:32 AM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] Accessibility of Lexis-Nexis

Hello all,

Matthias Niska here, I am just finishing up my second year at the University
of Minnesota Law School, and some of you may remember me as a NFB
Scholarship winner from the summer of 2009. I'm new to this listserv, and I
have a legal research question I was hoping you all might help me with. 

I am a JAWS user, and was extremely frustrated at the beginning of law
school with the poor interaction between JAWS and the standard versions of
both Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis. However, shortly into my 1L year, thanks to
Patti Chang, I found out about the text version of Westlaw, and that has
worked great for my legal research needs ever since. I've been able to use
Westlaw text for all of my law school research, and also for my job last
summer at the U.S. Attorney's Office here in Minneapolis.

My problem is that I was lucky to land a job with a great Minneapolis firm
this summer, but they have an exclusive contractual relationship with
Lexis-Nexis. I have explained my concerns to the folks at my firm and they
are prepared to give me any and all reasonable accommodations that I need to
be successful this summer, but obviously because of the contract with
Lexis-Nexis, they would strongly prefer that I learn to use Lexis if at all
possible.

Which brings us to my question: Do any of you JAWS users out there use Lexis
for your legal research? Is there some text-based version of Lexis out there
I don't know about? Any tricks or advice you would suggest to make Lexis
more compatible with my screen-reader, or people I should contact?

Thanks much,

Matthias Niska
J.D. candidate, 2012
University of Minnesota Law School

 




      
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